I present an alternative way to use Pi-hole outside the home network by leveraging Encrypted DNS (aka DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS) instead of the usual VPN.
Does it? I always use a vpn on my phone and laptop and it’s not even measurable. Sure there’s gonna be more CPU usage, but with hardware acceleration and whatnot it’s almost nothing.
“It incurs additional battery usage.“
Does it? I always use a vpn on my phone and laptop and it’s not even measurable. Sure there’s gonna be more CPU usage, but with hardware acceleration and whatnot it’s almost nothing.
This is anecdotal experience, but last time I left Wireguard on for an entire day and it accounted for 5% of battery usage that day.
Fair enough, this is 10 days of usage for me always being on.
Mine is so low it says “no usage”.